This site features stories from history, classic literature, movies, & helps tells the story behind the story with primary sources, videos, documents, & more.
Character Scrapbook is a reader's response activity to analyze the characters in any book. On one side of the scrapbook, students will create an image of the character, person or animal. They can also print a blank version to fill in on their own. On the other side of the scrapbook, students can list important character traits. Selecting lists that best suit their character:
Ten things I know about _.
Ten words that describe _.
Ten details about _'s appearance.
Ten challenges _ faced.
Ten accomplishments _ achieved.
This activity will work with most fiction or nonfiction book, & can be used individually or as a whole class. Help you students form a deeper understanding of a book's characters.
Read-Alike Websites
Many people use the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature on Amazon to find new books based on previous favorites. Read-alike websites offer an alternative with variable parameters to suggest potential new favorites: author, series, genre, title. There are numerous sites with this designation (ex: if you like Janet Evanovich you might also like J. D. Robb, Rita May Brown or Carl Hiaasen). Pay attention to how recently the site has been updated.
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This site features stories from history, classic literature, movies, & helps tells the story behind the story with primary sources, videos, documents, & more.
Character Scrapbook
ScholasticCharacter Scrapbook is a reader's response activity to analyze the characters in any book. On one side of the scrapbook, students will create an image of the character, person or animal. They can also print a blank version to fill in on their own. On the other side of the scrapbook, students can list important character traits. Selecting lists that best suit their character:
This activity will work with most fiction or nonfiction book, & can be used individually or as a whole class. Help you students form a deeper understanding of a book's characters.
Read-Alike Websites
Many people use the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature on Amazon to find new books based on previous favorites. Read-alike websites offer an alternative with variable parameters to suggest potential new favorites: author, series, genre, title. There are numerous sites with this designation (ex: if you like Janet Evanovich you might also like J. D. Robb, Rita May Brown or Carl Hiaasen). Pay attention to how recently the site has been updated.
Rewordify.com
The purpose of this site is to help students read complex text passages & rephrasing in simpler, easy to understand terms.
Seussville
Everything related to Dr. Seuss books, videos, games & activities, pick a character to learn more about, learn about the author himself.
Storyline Online
From the Screen Actors Guild Foundation , Storyline Online is a collection of video recordings of children’s stories being read by famous actors.
SummarizeThis
A reading tool that summarizes the main points of long text articles.
Last Updated - April 2014